Nine days of packrafting and backpacking in the Bob Marshall Wilderness of northern Montana. This was a tough trip that was insanely great.

A solo backpacking trip to central Grand Gulch in Utah.

On January 1, 2019, we rung in the New Year with Tommy and Jenny and a few other people with a trip to Eudy Cave, AL. I had been to Eudy once with the Grotto, but it had been almost four years earlier, and I remembered nothing…

Highlight video of our play time in 2018

Blue Spring Cave in Sparta, TN, just keeps calling me back. At 40 miles long, this cave is the longest cave in Tennessee, the 10th longest in the United States, and currently the 44th longest cave on the entire planet. Like all long caves, it’s probably still…

Unsterstein Cave is fascinating to me because it’s the biggest cave I know about that has been discovered since I moved to Alabama. In the 21st Century, it’s tempting to think that everything on the planet has already been discovered. But when it comes to caves, at…

The mountains of Norway host glaciers, bright blue-green lakes, and expansive views. I can’t wait to explore more of this beautiful country.

The summer of 2018 was a whirlwind of travel. From the end of June to the end of September, work would have me going from Ohio to Seattle to New Orleans to Georgia and to Philadelphia, while personal travel would see me driving to Montana and flying…

On July 9, 2018, I went kayaking with some people from the Huntsville Grotto to Hambrick Cave on Guntersville Lake. There is generally a large colony of gray bats that spend live in Hambrick Cave and fly out at dusk over the lake. The cave is about…

Deep Thoughts

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again. - Ralph Waldo Emerson